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It is a world very different from ours, a world in which magic exists, a world where peasants labor under the burden of heavy taxes imposed upon them by the unfair rulers of the land. Although the commoners have a difficult lot, there are those among them with the strenth to use his sword and make a name for himself — an adventurer. To be an adventurer is the dream of every peasant.

The story details the journey of a young man who was raised in the countryside of Souvania, on the continent of Valencia. Disowned by his own father and forced to make his way in life, he chooses to become a Hunter, a mercenary who accepts jobs for a variety of adventures. Heading into town to officially join the Hunter’s Guild with his dragon Shell at his side, he happens across a mysterious girl who looks strikingly like the Moon Goddess.

The Moon Goddess… Ever since he was young, a beautiful girl appears before him on nights of a full moon. Because of the mysterious manner of her appearance, he gave her her unique name. With the mysterious girl Alicia and dragon Shell at his side, as well as new characters he will join with later, our hero embarks on many bold adventures. But will he ever be able to solve the bizarre mystery of the beautiful Moon Goddess standing in the lake…?

93 Responses to “Brave Soul”

Hii guys I know this is a years like comments but just want to share For those having problems with the black screen with text running all over Just copy the whole folder in Program files then run the exe and create a shortcut

I’m running the game on Windows 10, and it took considerable fiddling to get everything working correctly. This is what I did:
Right click the game brave_s.exe in the folder where you installed the game.
Go to Properties.
Set the compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Set the game to start in 640×480.
Set the game to run as administrator.
Launch the game.
In the config menu that pops up, set the game to windowed mode.
On the right, set the graphics to GDI.
Play the game.
Even though you’re in windowed mode, the game will display as though it were full screen. If your task bar is in the way, right click it, go to settings, and switch on ”auto hide taskbar”.
Before I got to these settings, the game would lag very badly in full screen mode, and if I alt-tabbed, the game would get tons of graphical glitches when I tabbed back in. This setup fixed all the problems and I was able to play perfectly without a virtual machine. Good luck

I bought this game years ago, and have not been able to get it to work for years. Found this site and thought what the heck, and searched up all my old games. I never knew they made a patch for this game, downloaded it and now I can play this again 🙂 Thank You so much for this admin, this was the 1st game I ever bought and I can enjoy it again (just days before my birthday).

I really don’t get how to install this. When i start it’s only black screen with wordings only. Not happen before when my OS was XP. And I also tried that patch still didn’t work. Also, do you have an English patch for INSTALL.EXE?

Ok I use Windows 7 and I can’t run the game. I have problems with the opening blurring down the screen. Runing the installer in English. I have changed the locale back to English. I have tried the cmd thing and going into compatibility mode. I cant move any thing from part two because it all extracted in to part one folder. If some could please guild me thur this correctly and properly I would be very happy. Thankyou.

I want to once again thank the creator and maintainer of this site and for bringing awesome date-sim and visual novels to US gamers. Thank you! ^_^

That said…. Have you tried using Oracle VM VirtualBox (virtual machine)?? It is free, by the way, the games runs any older game or Japanese game perfectly. I love playing an old Date-sim called “True Love”, which is one of the best date-sims ever made (and closest you will ever be to Tokimeki games *sigh*) in English. I use Oracle VirtualBox and run “emulation” inside Win 7 of Windows 98 with the True Love game inside. It runs perfectly with sound, no glitches, no headache. 🙂

Everyone: the best way to run old games in this awesome site is to run a VirtualMachine (emulator that runs inside Windows XP, Win Vista, Win 7, etc, and run an “emulation” of an older Windows version – like Windows 98 or whatever, so you can run old Japanese translated games).

The best FREE one is: virtualbox.org and it is easy to use. Works beautifully and much easier to use then DOS-Box, which even for a DOS pro like me, is a headache to use. My 2 cents.

Started playing this, and it’s pretty fun so far. The old-school nature just makes it somehow super-charming, even though the sound quality of the dialogue isn’t very good. My only complaint is that there’s no backlog or any way to re-read text that has already past, so if you accidentally double-click during a scene, you won’t know what the character just said.
Other than that, this is a good game so far.

So yeah, first I want to thank who ever made this site. Because it gave me the oppurtunity to download a few great Eroge games. And secondly, I am sorry to bother you with this again but I can’t play Brave Soul…

I’ve have Windows 7 Home Premium and I have changed the compatibility from Windows XP service pack 2 to Windows 98 to Windows Service Pack 3 and back to Windows XP service pack 2 and I still can’t get Brave Soul to run… All I get is a roll of white text that isn’t readable, and even when I wait it out it just loops again…

Please, how do I fix this!
I heard some good things about Brave Soul so I really want to play it…
PS: I’m not very good with computers, so try to keep it simple. :p

is it just me or the bs_op.avi is just sound? (black vid) the problem is not just when I run it from inside the game, the file itself (in the AVI folder) is just sound with no vid, though it’s .avi, anyone can help?

Okay I’ve finally found out how to make Brave Soul run on Windows 7, but there are some problems. If you get Windows XP mode in Windows Virtual PC and get Brave Soul on there it will run, but unfortunately I haven’t found a way to get full screen mode to work. If anyone does please post how to.

i can’t get any girl join my party, all i get is caroll and alicia. i’ve done the mission which contain marin (the lost item mission) but she’s nowhere!!.
i don’t know hot to change my party members too, help!!

If the version you have is from a torrent (isohunt, piratebay, etcetera) it is quite likely the version I was messing about with.

Try the version from this site, it’s completely different, it’s a direct download rather than a torrent. I just put it on my computer and played it straght off, no patching, no copying, renaming or any nonsense. Just, put it on my hard-drive and played it.

I’ve been having trouble to the point of it becoming a personal conquest!

After downloading and unzipping it I found out that I couldn’t install it. I simply get a DOSbox that flickers something about there not being enough memory.

So then I find out that the whole file is already to go in the folder, that doesn’t work!

Then I find out that you need the patch from the PeachPrincess website to run it, again this didn’t work until somebody mentioned that you have to copy the brave_s folder into c:\Program Files ‘without’ the brave_s file.

I tried this, reinstalled the patch and was given a new execution file, holding my breath I clicked and got the grey setup window!

I was overjoyed, only to have the thing quit out the moment I click Play…

Since then the trail has gone dead because everybody else managed to play it the moment they installed the patch…

What bought me here is that I tried something that showed me the same boxes as ‘Decadence’ receaved…

Dmm not really sure what you mean but, thanks anyway. Also yeah you may be right about it not working on new computers, because it worked on my older one but doesn’t on the new one I got recently. 🙁 Anyway when I try using different compatibility settings for windows, it says “File not found: cgdb” and then also says “File not found: Item” or something to that effect. I have both the files and it starts when I just play normally but it doesn’t go to main menu so I can’t play like I said before.

I had the same problem until I noticed you don’t need to install it really, just ignore the install.exe and click the Brave_s.exe. This one is more like an unrar and play. It works fine and this way you don’t get confused alot.

decadence i just got it to work.. ok try this there are two icon to click on to strat the game .. try to delete one of them.. i delete the brave_s one … and i keep the brave_s.exe one … after i detele brave_s i click on brave_s.exe and the game came up ….so try tht

I have the same problem as Iron. When I run the Brave Soul Application I pick the settings and then start, once started the words begin to scroll up the screen leaving text trails. I also can’t get to the main menu, so I can’t play. Sometimes I hit enter and it plays video.